In 2007, researchers at Harvard developed a technique to randomly mix green, cyan and yellow fluorescent proteins in individual mouse neurons. The resulting images are both beautiful and revealing. Color coding neurons, which process...

Animals don't care about politics. They take whatever nature gives them and if nature for whatever reason gives them more habitat they will take it. Jellyfish are following warmer waters northward in massive numbers. Why are the ...

Close your eyes. Now open them. Within your field of vision are billions upon billions of atoms, more atoms than there are stars in the universe. What else is it that we are not seeing? There are life forms around us and within us, in...

If you aren't neurotic when you start writing a book, you very well may be by the time you finish. In a lot of ways, writing a book is like playing a round of golf. If you aren't careful you can put too much pressure on your game. The...

When I went off to college in 1963, the only way I could get in touch with my parents was to (a) write a letter or (b) call them collect on a pay phone. And if you called collect it damn well better be important. So, guess what? We...